Five journalists injured in bomb attack in Thailand

October 22, 2013 12:22 PM ET

Bangkok,
October 22, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the recent
roadside bomb attack that injured five reporters in southern Thailand and calls
on both sides of the region's insurgent conflict to refrain from attacks that
imperil journalists.

An
improvised explosive device detonated on October 19 near a Thai army foot
patrol in the southernmost province of Narathiwat, according to news reports. Two
soldiers died from injuries sustained in the first explosion. A little under an
hour later, while Thai officials and reporters were investigating the blast, a
second hidden explosive device exploded in a nearby tree.

Violence
in Thailand's southernmost provinces has intensified in recent weeks after a
declared ceasefire between a rebel group and the Thai government failed to hold
during the Muslim fasting period of Ramadan. More than 5,000 people have been
killed in the restive region since an insurgent movement restarted a
decades-old fight for autonomy in January 2004.

"These types of staggered
bomb attacks are designed to injure those who investigate southern Thailand's
insurgency-related violence," said Shawn Crispin, CPJ's senior Southeast Asia
representative. "Too often, reporters are among those injured in the follow-up
attacks. Both sides in southern Thailand's conflict have a responsibility to
ensure that journalists can safely report and the flow of information is not
impeded."

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